The top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee will vote for Gina Haspel to be the next CIA director, all but ensuring President Donald Trump's pick to lead the agency will have enough votes to win Senate confirmation.

Warner and Heitkamp's endorsement follows Haspel support from Democratic Sens.

She is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate as soon as next week, although that vote likely also will be close.

Haspel - who would replace now-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the role - has gotten support from lawmakers on the left.

Amid criticism of Gina Haspel for her role in the Central Intelligence Agency's enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding, one green beret made a decision to argue that waterboarding wasn't actually torture.

An undercover officer for most of her 33-year career, Haspel in 2002 served as CIA station chief in Thailand, where the agency conducted interrogations at a secret prison using methods including waterboarding, which is widely viewed as torture.

Amid an intensifying public debate on torture, President Donald Trump's pick to head the CIA on Tuesday said the harsh interrogation program the agency ran at black sites after the September 11 attacks should not have been undertaken. A number of Democrats and two Republicans, Rand Paul and John McCain, have said they'll oppose her confirmation because of her role in supervising the use of the disputed techniques on suspected terrorists in the years after the September 11 attacks.

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Warner, whose home state of Virginia houses the CIA's headquarters, has an important constituency to consider, and has been complimentary of Haspel in the past. Her written comments went farther than ones she made at her confirmation hearing.

McCain, a war hero who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, is one of just two Republicans who have announced they will vote against her. Stand with John McCain against torture.

"See, I think people who have actually been tortured who are saying this is not a good thing, you should listen to them because you have never been tortured", she told Trump. A committee vote is expected Wednesday. It was President Obama who decided that John Brennan, Jose Rodriguez, Gina Haspel and others involved in the torture program should not face prosecution.

The Gaza leader of the Hamas militant group has suggested tens of thousands of Palestinians could storm into Israel on Monday. The crowd erupted in cheers as protesters attached hooks and ropes to the barbed-wire fence and hauled sections of it away.

Administration officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide a candid account of the private meeting. He urged voters to "give me some reinforcements, please" in the form of new Republican members.

Consequently, the price of Brent and WTI rose from $76.80 to $77.99 and $70.50 to $70.91 respectively in the global market. Futures for September delivery rose 1.6% to 472.8 yuan a barrel on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange.

Drawing in large numbers of teenage and twentysomething viewers makes Eurovision an outlier in the age of YouTube and smartphones. In an interview ahead of tonight's show, Netta admitted that the attention has been "embarrassing" for her.

He inspired an instant revival with five wins in his opening nine league games to climb clear of the bottom three. City left it to virtually the last kick of its last match to reach the magical 100-point barrier.

Zarif arrived in Beijing on Sunday for the first stop of his tour, ahead of visiting Moscow and Brussels in the coming days. But he added: "If the nuclear deal is to continue, the interests of the people of Iran must be assured".

Seann William Scott will take on his first regular role on TV as he's replaced Clayne Crawford on Fox's Lethal Weapon . The action drama is executive produced by Matt Miller, Dan Lin, Jennifer Gwartz and McG.

ZTE is known to rely on importing chips from U.S. firms such as Qualcomm and Intel for up to a third of its components. When US President Donald Trump talks about saving jobs, it is usually American jobs he is making promises about.

It followed a second visit to Pyongyang by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday to make arrangements for the summit. Trump has repeatedly said that if the meeting with Kim does not take the right course, he may walk out or cancel the summit.

To stay up they must beat Stoke and Southampton have to lose to Manchester City, while enjoying a 10-goal turnaround in the process.

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